All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Who besides Ani DiFranco would begin an album with a piercing buzz and a muttered “I don’t know why the f**k I play acoustic guitars”? But then who else would release a double-disc concert set only five years after the last one? Like 1997′s Living in Clip, her latest live document is sublimely packaged and messily recorded, and features the backing of a howling audience and a hot jazz-rock band. Highlights include a funky, almost gangsta take of her best New York song, “Cradle and All”; Julie Wolf’s grinding organ on “Napoleon”; and the previously unreleased post-9/11, antiwar poem “Self Evident.” The performances (culled from venues across the U.S., as well as France and Canada) feature lots of witty soap-boxing (apparently no one told Ani that Clear Channel’s infamous banned song list doesn’t exist… does it?) in addition to some gorgeous guitar picking and inventive horn lines. In the end, all the flaws, giggles, stumbling starts, and risky arrangements are a testament to how much she trusts her audience and how much they trust her. Do her fans really need another double live album? When the performances brim with this much charisma, adventure, and conviction, yes, they do. –Roy Kasten
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
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Not a sequel to ‘Living in Clip’, but that’s fine with me I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of SMS/SML a week before the official release date because I ordered it via the Righteous Babe website. Since that time I have been playing this 2-CD set consistently and I definately like what I hear. As the title of this review declares, this is not a sequel to Living in Clip but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In the recording of songs on tour with her 6-piece band between 2000 and 2002, Ani gives her older songs a different twist while simultaneously gracing us with several new songs. Songs like ‘IQ’ and ’32 Flavors’ have a definate spin that allows one to appreciate the song in a different, but not less significant, way.
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter is so much better The energy, charisma and authority Ani Difranco conveys at her live shows cannot be adequately captured in a recording. Yet her latest release, “So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter,” makes a valiant attempt.